by Vivian Huizenga

Since sexual harassment

seems to be a common sub- ject in past issues of the Gem, surely there would be some appreciation of up to date facts about sexual ha- _rassment at UPEI. Data has been scrupu- lously collected and analysed as part of a joint research profect by Dr Beth Perci- val and Dr. Don Mazer in the Psychology depart- ment at UPEI. They have been working on the project for the past year. Featured at the most recent faculty seminar held Friday, January 29 were Profs Percival and Mazer who releassed some of their findings on sexual ha- rassment at UPEI.

The project itself is a momentous task. The amount of work gone into it so far has been phenom- enal and it isn’t completed yet! Those who have taken a statistics curse can really appreciate the complexity of such a project. There are ru- mors of literally mountains of data downstairs in Memorial.

Two students who must be thanked for working dur- ing the summer months an- alyzing data were Brenda

Wilson and Katie MacInnis.

Subjects for the study were randomly selected from stu- dent, staff and faculty popu- lations at UPEI.

The questionnaires were sent out during the win- ter term of 1986 and con- tained questions about 36 different kinds of incidents. These were classified into four catagories, incidents that took place in class, with

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faculty, with staff and_with students. ;

Data collected were how common is sexual harass- ment at UPEI, kinds of inci- dents, attitudes and descrip- tions. Of the 34 incidents described as sexual harass- ment, 85 percent of males and 89 percent of females have had at least one expe- rience and on the average, students have had 5 or 6 of these different kinds of expe- riences.

The researchers were surprised to learn that the most common incidents occurred in the in- cldents among women and men.

So what is sexual harass- ment really anyway? Defin- ing sexual harassment was not easy says Mazer. Sub- jects involved in the research actually played a role in clar- ifying a definition. Of the 34 questions aimed at defin- ing sexual harassment, only 2 were not considered sex- ual harassment by the ma- jority. Those two were sex- ual explicit jokes in class and sexually explicit language in class. Mazer went on to say that 48 percent of the re- spondents felt these 2 sug- gestions were indeed sexual harassment.

Well, maybe this is just all part of the ‘“sex- ual dance”. C’mon, people hae to start somewhere! The key elements to remember are UNWANTED or PRES- SURE for sexual activities. In other words, not respect- ing or considering the feel- ings of others.

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After Enman hit the front end of a 1-1 to put UPEI up 56-51. Dal raced up court still with hopes of winning the game. It was then that the UPEI defecse came through again as it had all season. Stephanie Smith make a play that symbolized the way Lady Panthers had played throughout the game and the season.

With chants of Defense falling down all around them the Panthers pressed Dal into a turnover. Smith brought the crowd to its feet when she stripped Kathy MacCormack of the ball. She

then frantically tried to stop it from rolling out of bounds.

As the ball inched its way toward the side lines both Smith and MacCor- mack dove for it. smith somehow managed to rip it away and pass it to Enman without travelling.

That proved to be Dal’s last chance and when Ba- hadursingh hit both free throws after being fouled the Lady Panther bench erupted into celebration. The play- ers danced and hugged each other on the floor as the dream of a perfect season was

finally theirs.

Some interesting find- ings are that there seems to be equality of opportu- nity. e.g between students. Women harass men as much as men harass women. While women experience more ha- rassment than men in all cat- egories the difference isn’t large and isn’t statistically significant. women do ex- perience more opposite sex harassment than men, while men experience more same sex harassment than women.

In preliminary analyses of faculty the researchers dis- covered that women in busi- ness experience more harass- ment and men in business experience. less harassment than women and men in arts or science.

Most common incidents

Women Students (N=138)

1. Sexual “looks” from other students (65.4 percent)

2. social “teasing/jokes” from other students (65.4 percent)

MR. JONES

3. Faculty “put down women” in class (63.2 per- cent)

4. Faculty tell “sexual jokes” in class (48.5 percent)

5. ~ “Social pressure” from other studetns (47.8 percent)

6. “Unwanted touch” from other studetns (43.4 percetn)

7. Facutly “put down men” in class (33.1 percent)

8. faculty “put down homosexuals” in class (31.6 percent)

9. Sexual “looks form staff (29.4 percent)

10. faculty use language” in class (27.9 per- cent)

11. Unwanted “kiss /fondle” from other stu- dents (25.0 percent)

“obscene

12. “Pressure for sex” from other studene (25.0 percent)

Men Students (N=74) 1. Sexual “looks from other students (60.8 percent)

2.

Sexual “teasing/jokes” from studetns (56.8 percent)

3. Social pressure” from other students (54.1 percent)

4. Faculty tell “sexual jokes” in class (47.3 percent)

5. Facluty “put women down” in class (45.9 percent)

6. “Unwanted touch” from other students (44.6 percent) 7

7 Faculty “put down homosexuals” in class (33.8 percent)

8. Faculty “put down men” in class (31.1 percent)

9. Faculty use “obscene language” in class (29.7 per- cent)

10. Unwanted “kiss /fondle” from other stu- dents (24.3 percent)

11. ‘Pressure for sex” from other students (23.0 percent)

12. Sexual “looks” from staff (21.6 percent)

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area, racing for great prizes! Teams have to consist of 3 drinkers and one driver (these people don’t have to be seniors-we challenge all the freshmen, sophmores ju- niors and anyone else who wants to, to come on out and crawl with us!). Registra- tion will be going on all after- noon in the Panther Lounge during the Movie Pub and will continue until about 7:00 p-m..

The crawl starts at 7:30 p-m. and ends when the last team stumbles through the door. The pub goes on all night, and the winning team will be announced at around 12:00. Should be a time that we'll all remember - or will we? Rules will be available and a list of clubs will be given to you as you leave.

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Seniors - get your teams together soon! This will be your last chance to do UPEI pub crawl before you graduate! If you don’t want to crawl, come to the pub anyay and meet some of the people that you’ll be spend: ing a week with in May! We hope that this will be an it dication of the kind of enthv siasm and spirit that we’r going to see during Seni! Week.

If you haven’t had the time or energy to do any thing with us yet - this # your chance! Get involved now - before graduation tim comes and you begin to wo" | der why you didn’t enj%! your Senior year at UPE! There are no excuses for ha” ing a bad time here at uPE

- That’s all for now. 5“ you next week!

‘-Doris, Rob, Les anf Maryellen